Research carried out under the direction of Professor Peter Clough of Manchester Metropolitan University has identified the four key components of Mental Toughness. These are called the 4 Cs. This research has now been independently validated through studies in Canada, Italy as well as the UK.

How can we assess Mental Toughness?

We are also able to assess mental toughness through a unique 48 item high quality psychometric measure – MTQ48.

It is normative which enables users to assess mental toughness before and after an event such as a training & development or coaching programme.

Can we develop Mental Toughness?

We can. We can either help someone change their mental toughness or we can show someone how to adopt the behaviours that a mentally tough person would adopt. Either way many of the benefits of developing mental toughness can be achieved. We have a programme of interventions which suits all applications in order to develop a high performing team